Carpet-beater



' (No Model.) A. LYON.

CARPET BEATER. No. 361,638. Patented Apr. 19, 1887.

UNITED STATES ATENT OFFICE.

. QADOLPH LYON, or DETROIT, MICHIGAN.

CARPET-B'EATER.

SPECIFICATION forming part cf Letters Patent No. 361,638, dated April l9 1887.

(No model.)

--carpet-beaters; and the invention consists in the peculiar combinations and the novel construction, arrangement, and adaptation of parts, all as more fully hereinafter described and claimed.

Figure 1 is an end elevation of my improved carpet-beating device. Fig. 2 is a perspective view of the same.

In the drawings, A represents one of the heads of my carpet-beating wheel, there being two such headsone at each end exactly alike in size and form, and each centrally supported .upon a stub-shaft, (4, adapted to run in suitable stationary bearings, (not shown,) and provided with any ofthe known appliances for giving the device a rotary motion. These ends are of a very irregular stelliform shape, and they are connected together by means of slats B, secured to longitudinal bars fastened to the heads in such a manner as to leave spaces be- The portion (1 of one is opposite a wider portion on the opposite side. By this construction there are provided two kinds of pockets, the smaller being the carrying-pockets and the larger being the pockets into which the carpets successively fall. This peculiar construction prevents, in the rotation of the wheel carrying several carpets under action, such carpets from falling .upon each other as they fall from ahigher pocket to a lower one, so that each successive carpet falls upon the non-yielding slats, and by such impact are deprived of their dust.

I attach importance to the form of my wheel and to the fact that the narrow side or portion f on one side he opposite the wider portion 0 of the opposite side and the narrow portion 9, adjacent to the portion 0, be oppositethe wider portion cl on the opposite side adjacent to the portion f, for by this arrangement I get the maximum distance for the carpets to fall, whereby they are more thoroughly cleaned. The large pockets at n and the small pockets 0 p are diametrically opposite each other, as shown.

What I claim as my invention is 1. A rotary carpet-cleaning machine con sisting of a wheel of irregular outline having a narrower portion on one side oppositea wider portion on the opposite side, substantially as and for the purpose specified.

WVitnesses:

H. S. SPRAGUE, JOHN SOHUMAN. 

